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‘Avoidance is no longer an option’: This Yom Kippur, rabbis across the country focused their sermons on racial injustice

With no shortage of current events to mine, spiritual leaders chose to call on their white congregants to act rather than merely acknowledge racism in America.

Bibi Shapiro, the 6-year-old whose ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ went viral, sang at Central Synagogue’s Yom Kippur services

The inspirational story keeps growing.

A pandemic judgment day: Yom Kippur arrives with COVID-19 cases on the rise

“The next two weeks will determine many, many things,” said a rabbi and doctor in an Orthodox community experiencing an uptick in COVID cases.

Chickens on a plane: A Yom Kippur ritual is performed by air for Jews in locked-down Melbourne

Insayno sings in a video clip from 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Insayno/YouTube)

Dutch city of Haarlem withdraws honor from rapper who downplayed the Holocaust

‘Tehran’ is a groundbreaking Israeli spy show about immigrant identity

Jewish woman who helped take down sex-trafficking ring in 1930s honored in Buenos Aires

Michael Oren speaks at Bar-Ilan University in Israel in 2014. (Yoni Reif)

Michael Oren published a book of short stories. He’s more worried about the future of literature than democracy.

Dutch city names as its resident poet a rapper who called the Holocaust a ‘cover-up for dumb sheep’

Kibitz is the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the day

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